not so much as a poem but a quote by Richard Bach.
from Jonathan livingston seagull

we can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill

don't believe what your eyes are telling you,all they show is limitation.
look with your understanding.
find out what you already know and you'll see the way to fly.

i am no longer fleet of foot
i must finish the race
at my own pace

time has given
time has robbed
it's like i'm living
in a fog

i keep doing
as i've done
for so long

it's all i know
the same old song

sympathy i do not need
empathy is what i bleed

you will ask what i need

dignity an to let me be

dignity is all i have left
time has robbed me of the rest

this ring is no chain to me
i love it on this finger of mine

this home i build
i do for us
so we wont live in the dust

the trust i show and give
i do for us

the lust is for her alone
the passion is to keep
her on her throne

the honor is hers to keep
cause if she tossed it
she knows i would weep

she guards my heart
she loved me from the start

she has a slight waddle
when she walks

shes a real duck
when she struts

hair spun of gold
and a body thats not to old

a yankee twang to her rebel yell
i'm sure when she see's this
i'll be told to go to hell
i know her all to well

for she's my odd little duck
and i dont give a .....

i long to stand in front
of this son of mine
on his way to
twenty-nine

soon to be twenty eight
that i understand his fate

it would be a lie
to say i know the
date

to show him his cross to bear
to warn him of his silver hair
to protect him
would be my goal

free him of growin old

instead i hold him tight
an hug him with all my might

for he's got the time to see
the light.

I stopped to take look
as if i opened a book
the mirror made it bigger
i rubbed it to make it clearer

what i saw
dang near beat all
the lines
the sag of the eye
the scar on the jaw
the crack of my craw

days of youth have slipped on by

as i sit ever so spry
careful now as to avoid another nick

i vow to never look again
in the light
ctrl+alt+delete
from my data bank
gone from this slippn mind
i will always be twenty-nine

do not receive me wrong
for i have no regret
for the scars of mine

sun and rain
strife and pain
carved this face of mine

it tells the story of
life and work
pain and strain
and worry

a life well lived
of all it and i had to
give.

**** it ,just **** IT,
choices and consequences,
that are ****** upon the young,
truth an justice never to be known.
give us insight to the gone to young.
give them hugs to do whats right,
but always know it was their lack of sight,
for the end is never right.
how does it go so far from the path?
just to end at the grave of a cold dead life
today is just a dream,
tomorrow never to be.
alone an .... how sad it must be,
pray for the family that will never see.
so many had thoughts,
of what they could be
but what could they do,
for you always knew
where you would end up
alright.